Blocked by Trump on Twitter – now crusaders take their case to court

When Donald Trump took the nuclear option, it seemed funny at first, said Holly Figueroa O’Reilly.
After the 2016 election, Figueroa O’Reilly, who describes herself as a political moderate and the president as an “idiot”, became a persistent critic of Trump on Twitter, which allows users to target one another with messages.
But Figueroa O’Reilly, 47, a songwriter and a mother of five from Seattle, apparently crossed an invisible line last spring when she replied to a Trump tweet about the British prime minister with a short video that showed a smile dropping off Pope Francis’s face in a... read more

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